Managing Business Culture

Managing
Business
Culture

Table of Contents
Introduction:.....................................................................................................................................1
Task 1:..............................................................................................................................................1
Explain the meaning of national culture in the context of organisation:................................1
Why it is important for a management in the international trade to understand the existing
culture of the people?.............................................................................................................3
What benefits the company will get if the management knows the existing culture:............4
What challenges the organisation will face if national culture is not acknowledged:............6
TASK 2:...........................................................................................................................................8
Explain the meaning of global virtual teams:.........................................................................8
Advantages and disadvantages of virtual teams for the manager:.........................................8
Conclusion:....................................................................................................................................10
References:.....................................................................................................................................11

Introduction:
Managing the cross culture is consider as a global team that includes the people from
the different cultures and having different background. The study is related is to cross culture
that focus on the crucial activities such as training and development that encourages them to
solve the conflict of the diverse culture at the work place and have effective management that
focus on achieving the common goals and objectives of the organisation in the present and
coming years. The main fundamental objective is to create the achievable management
structure and have effective component in the organisation culture. It is important for the
organisation to have a effective cross –culture environment in their management team as this
helps in managing the employees in certain way so that pre-determine goals can be accomplished
in the long period and employees are also able to share their point of view and understand the
ideas of another employees, under the report there will be discuses on the organisational culture
of the Sainsbury which is a supermarket stores for grocers items and various another things such
as home wares and electric devices to its international customer. Further this report will examine
the organisation culture theory to have effective outcomes in the long run. (Crona, 2017)
Task 1:
Explain the meaning of national culture in the context of organisation:
The organisational culture is very important for the company as it shows the efficiency
of its employees at the work related places. Cross-culture management happens when manager
have employees from the different countries and have to manage them so that objectives of the
organisation can be achieved in time and in the most productivity manner. Company have
office in various locations which having different backgrounds employees and manager have to
balance them in such way so that goals of the company are accomplished at the end of the task.
The cultural of the company tells lot of things about the organisation and its employees and how
effective they are at their work is can be noted by the people in the market places.The
organisation culture provided the ways who company must performances it activities so that
goals and objectives can be accomplished within the specified time period. The Handy’s model
is used by the various organisation to study behaviour of the its employees at the work and see
how the organisation culture gets effected by the different roles and powers given to ist
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employees in the company. The organisation can follows the handy’s model to understand and
manage the culture in their work environment (Zein,, 2015)
Power culture: under such type of organisational culture, the power is hand of the senior
manager who gives direction to its sub-ordinates to perform the task in the most effectives ways
and in the most profitable ways. The top level management makes rules and regulation which
are to be followed by the another member of the team so that activities are performed in the
most profitable ways and within the set time frame. The sub-ordinates have to follow the set
producers which are set by the senior manager to that there is systematic approach to complete
the task in the effectives ways. Here the importance decision are made by the top manager in the
organisation which helps in performing better in the market(Wellin, 2016)
Under this culture, the power are in the hands of the top-levels of management which divides the
task in small steps which will be disturbed to its sub-ordinates which will helps the members of
the organisation achieve their goals and objectives within the time period.
Role culture: here, all the member of the organisation knows their roles and
responsibilities so that task can be finished in the most profitable ways. Power in the role culture
is show by the person position in the company and according the roles are assigned to them so
that all the activities are performed in the successful ways. This type of culture are considered as
highly controlled as roles of every in the management are known to them so task can be
completed in time and profits can be earned in the long run. Here the power is given according
to the roles and responsible given to them to completed the task in the most effective and
profitable manners. The organisation having such culture helps the manager and leaders to
achieve the objectives in the most productivity manners and are able to build their strong brand
image in the target markets places.
Task culture: under this culture, the team is formed who will perform the specific task
or the solve the problem in the most effective ways. The team is formed by the senior manager
and have to follow the set process to address the specific problem in the management levels.
The focus here in on the solving the problems of the project in the most suitable manner so that
organisation are able to achieve objectives in the profitable manner. The organisation form the
team who have specific skills to solve and dissolve the conflicts in the most effective manners
so that particular task can be completed within the set time period.
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